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"Balloon" Quotes from Famous Books

... flicker of bitter humor when she compared her moment of sentiment to a toy balloon pulled down from the blue ...

— The Sturdy Oak - A Composite Novel of American Politics by Fourteen American Authors • Samuel Merwin, et al.

... tall, certainly," said Sir Chetwynd, surveying his paunch, which lolled comfortably, and as it were by itself, in front of him, like a kind of waistcoated air-balloon. "I grant you they are tall. That is, the majority of them are. But I have seen short men among them. The Khedive is not taller than I am. And the Egyptian face is very deceptive. The features are often fine,— occasionally classic,—but intelligent expression ...

— Ziska - The Problem of a Wicked Soul • Marie Corelli

... then, was Savareen? Had he sunk into the bowels of the earth, or gone up, black mare and all, in a balloon? Of course it was all nonsense about the landlord having passed him on the road without seeing or hearing anything of him. But what other explanation did the circumstances admit of? At any rate, there was nothing for Lapierre to do but ride back to Savareen's ...

— The Gerrard Street Mystery and Other Weird Tales • John Charles Dent

... wings from his coat-tails, he spread them as wide as possible and then jumped from the car of the balloon. ...

— The Woggle-Bug Book • L. Frank Baum

... The balloon will be filled and ready for the start about the middle of June, when Mr. Andree and his companions will ...

— The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 30, June 3, 1897 - A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls • Various

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